Zhang Bian
Appearance
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Born | Pizhou, Jiangsu, China | August 29, 1986||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 47 kg (104 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Table tennis career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 1 (October 2012)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Traditional Chinese | 張變 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 张变 | ||||||
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Zhang Bian (Chinese: 张变, born 29 August 1986[4]) is a Chinese para table tennis player. She has won eight gold medals from five Paralympic Games (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024).[5]
Personal life
[edit]Like many of her teammates, Zhang was a polio survivor from Pizhou who attended New Hope Center as a child. That's where coach Heng Xin developed her into a star.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Zhang Bian - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Zhang Bian". IPC.infostradasports.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.[dead link ]
- ^ "Zhang Bian - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Zhang Bian – Rio 2016 Paralympic Games". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Bian Zhang". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Gan Hansheng (14 October 2016). "给梦插上翅膀——记国家残疾人乒乓球队教练衡新". China Internet Information Center (in Chinese). Retrieved 11 January 2020.
External links
[edit]- Zhang Bian at ITTF Para Table Tennis
- Zhang Bian at the International Paralympic Committee
- Zhang Bian at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Chinese female table tennis players
- Paralympic gold medalists for China
- Paralympic table tennis players for China
- Sportspeople from Pizhou
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games
- Polio survivors
- 21st-century Chinese sportswomen
- Chinese Paralympic medalist stubs
- Chinese table tennis biography stubs